Remember the TV show, MASH? Or at least heard of it? For the uninitiated, it was a popular comedy-drama in the 70s/early 80s that centered around a remote U.S. Army field hospital during the Korean war. For 27 years, the 1983 series finale of MASH held the distinction of being the most watched television event in U.S.
Proclaiming its coverage of the London Olympics to be the most watched event in U.S. television history, NBC unofficially declared open season on the slicing and dicing of viewing numbers, stats and trends for the 2012 summer games.
The fact that it’s August doesn’t mean we’re taking any breaks from hosting tech meetups and events in our Boston offices. It’s shaping up to be a busy month, in fact. Check out the schedule below and feel free to sign up for any functions that pique your interest.
At Brightcove’s PLAY 2012 global customer conference, 3Play Media Co-founder Josh Miller told Beet.TV about the integration of his company’s interactive video transcript solution with Video Cloud.
Two-thirds of consumers who purchase an LG Smart TV are connecting their sets to the Internet within two weeks of buying the unit, LG Electronics US Director of Content, Matt Durgin, told Beet.TV during Brightcove’s PLAY 2012 global customer conference.
Video publishers should be using data to understand how viewers are engaging with online ads, according to Jason Burke, VP of Operations for VideoHub. In an interview at PLAY 2012, Burke told Beet.TV that it’s important to know which viewers are engaging with what ads.
“This is probably the best time to be a content developer,” Jim Breyer told Beet.TV following his PLAY 2012 keynote conversation.